Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does he do it? For one thing, Cordero was bred to ride in a sport where bloodlines count. Both his grandfathers were jockeys in Santurce, P.R. Angel (who pronounces his Spanish name An-hell and likes to think of himself as a flying angel) has been riding professionally for 15 of his 32 years. The 5-ft. 3-in., 113-lb. jock, a bubbling personality who often sings while riding to the post, is a quiet artist at the reins. Along with a "good-looking seat"-he rides in a tight crouch with his back parallel to the horse...
...right. Many of his ideas about theater seem all defined and poorly suited to the stage. His ritualistic approach fosters confusion because we're often not sure where reality ends and mysticism takes over. This is particulars evident in his characterizations. Beatrice and Lucretia are unquestionably human, but the Count is more of an mearnation of an evil force. He is a myth-like figure and like the gods of classical mythology, he feels no guilt for his malice. If anyone is to repent for his acts, he reasons at must be God, for God made him what...
Since Artaud conceived of theater as a total sensors experience, his script is something of a skeleton. It anything, this puts a heavier burden on the actors, and in this production, the cast doesn't meet the challenge. David Juda gives the best performance as the demonic Count. His facial contortions and bent posture add immeasurably to the anguished character outlined in the script...
while plotting his family's ruin, Count Cenci muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes to restore the balance, but because of Artaud's limited idea of theater and the production's failings, his promise goes unfulfilled. The Cenci is mostly talk...
...other cases, however, the McWhirters are less friendly toward inflated claims. The pub debaters could learn from Guinness that "Professor Paul Rassinier, a Buchenwald survivor and holder of the Medialle de la Resistance, published evidence in 1964 to the effect that the total Jewish death count could not have exceeded 1,200,000, as opposed to the widely accepted figure of 6,000,000." But they would have to look up Rassinier's Le Veritable Prices Eichmann ou Les Vainqueurs incorrigibles (Paris, 1964) to learn the nature of the evidence--that the World Jewish Congress's pamphlet on the Eichmann...